July 16, 2017

... maybe you'd like to argue that I should call it the Flowery Soup Café, but you will have a formidable opponent, me — a professor opponent, a professorly opponent. But you can argue — or talk prettily — about whatever you like.

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If I've told you I regard you as a bad faith commenter and I intend to delete everything you attempt to post here and I know you have seen that I've said that, any continued posting is showing your bad faith. Once you are in this position, there is no way back. The only way to show your good faith, in fact, paradoxically, is never to post again. Go find something useful to do with your time.

The great(est) tennis player ever, made history today. Too bad Čilić didn't give him much of a game. The way Roger Federer is playing, it wouldn't have mattered if Čilić had been at the top of his game or not though. Federer did not lose a set in the whole tournament.

Onesie, you're not getting it. No amount of pet fellatio is getting you back in. It doesn't matter anymore if you have arguments. You have no status here to advance arguments. You have renounced it by your behavior, which she finds beyond the pale. You had warnings, yet you persisted. Kthxbai

I think we should have a trial. In the dock, once written, twice..., stands accused of commenting in bad faith. The defendant claims that the prosecutor is only bringing this charge because she disagrees with his views. The prosecutor says there is evidence, loads of it, but she refuses to sully her blog with it.

Hmmmm...., what a conundrum! What's a kangaroo to do? I know! Onesie, you get your own blog, and post all your good-faithful silliness over there. And then at some point in the future, the jury will come by, have a look, and render a verdict. Like that's gonna happen! Your problem is that you need some way to attract a bunch of right-wing commenters, so you can hang out with your betters. I'm afraid you just don't have the candlepower, Onesie. What you don't get, is that Althouse is a liberal. Hey, she voted for Obama, for Christ's sake! We mad-dog righties come here because it's such a welcome change of pace to have an intelligent liberal we can chew on. Sorry, you don't qualify.

Althouse allows some of her regular commenters to shit on her liberal guests in her "home", or are liberals interlopers here? Do conservatives feel that Althouse's comments sections are a free for all for them?

Those blossoms ought to be identifiable. I don't know how to do that. Maybe a germanium and a lily? It would be lovely if some botanist could jump in here and say what they are, in clockwise order or otherwise.

I had to come over here because I can’t keep up with Unknown on a great riff - here or anywhere.

I’m here with the flowers because I worked myself into Combat Stress Reaction trying to prove to my dissolving ego just who the boss really is.

The remedy is rest. Rest including comedy. R & R.

Seeing in the far background, Yiannopoulos, “literally a form of violence," then to beloved Brennan, and I’m thinking to myself that if -- if -- it’s really “a form of violence” that messes with my brain (what doesn’t affect my brain that enters there?), then there really is sweet rest and peace, by just walking away from what my subjectives call violence for awhile, walk away - to the “Flower Soup Café.”

Recharge. Back into combat later.

In the realm of self-policing (called taking responsibility for my own combat stress reaction), it’s on me.

It’s labeled an analysis by Philip Bump, a WaPo correspondent, not a bad analysis overall except for this sentence, “Republican House members are all up for reelection each year.” I know that members of the House of Representatives are considered for reelection every even year, I guess Bump didn’t know that. It’s a little thing, but I would hope The Smh, WaPo, Bump, or his editors would catch such a blatant error. It gives people a fake view of how our government works.

Once. Can't you read or is it just the understanding you have a problem with?You hurled an insult with every one of your comments, yet you are here asking the insults be punished with banning. Impressive.

Unknown said ... [to Once Written] "This is Ann's place. Don't shit on the carpet."

Moonstruck, where love prevails, “don’t shit where you eat.”

I don’t know the current controversy. Nor do I want to become guilty. Thank God for warnings - whether in the form of gentle flowers or as blast furnace bans.

I do agree that ‘once warned’ by Ann, Once Written, ought to stop. I don’t know Ann. Just guessing that private apologies and stopping the behavior would do the trick.

Probably, generously.

What I take – "This is Ann's place. Don't shit on the carpet” - to mean is that she doesn’t owe - not owe - a justification to anyone about anything in the Alt House, except to her beloveds in her house, with whom she negotiates, and they with her, the meaning of all things.

"Althouse allows some of her regular commenters to shit on her liberal guests in her "home", or are liberals interlopers here? Do conservatives feel that Althouse's comments sections are a free for all for them?"

It's just shocking, isn't it? We just wander into the place like we were invited, sit down on the white leather couch with a glass of merlot in one hand and a cabernet in the other, our knees a good foot-and-a-half apart, and just blab out our hate-filled opinions like we owned the place. Racist, sexist, hectoanachraphobic ravings ... It must be hard for you. Here, boy! Come sit here on the floor and I'll let you have a sip of this cab. Poor mutt.

Ha! Da joint is open to da respectable public! And who are you calling a "conservative"? I was a conservative once. Back when there was something worth conserving. Now I want to put people like you in camps. Temporarily.

Althouse said: "I find myself siding with him and rooting for him, even when I don't like him or agree with what he's saying."

Once said: Ann, with all due respect, is this not more about you and those who share this irrational reaction? Are you not acknowledging here that you are allowing yourself to be manipulated by a charismatic strongman leader?""

I say: Actually, I also find myself rooting for Trump, mainly because I find the people attacking him to be malicious, duplicitous, bigoted, snobbish, intolerant a-holes. I root for Trump to demolish those people, to show how shallow they are and because it is really amusing to watch them burn in the sunlight like the Zombies in Minecraft when they are exposed.

Blogger Unknown said...I made fried chicken marinated in buttermilk and corn bread dressing ( with homemade cornbread from scratch) too. I made collard greens with ham hocks yesterday and pinto beans too with more ham hocks. Then I made potato salad with crispy bacon in it. I also made buttermilk biscuits. I'm working on the macaroni and cheese now. Mmmm mmmm good. Who said white ladies can't cook soul food? What is soul food anyway but good old fashioned southern cooking?

Yes, but only if you could choose chronological order if you wanted. I like to see how the conversation develops... but that makes me sensitive to the type of commenter that's choosing to dump clutter -- repetition, multiple comments. The troll under discussion right now was a problem for sheer clutter, which showed no respect for the topic under discussion. I don't care about substance that criticizes me, but I do care about clutter.

Dust - “Actually, I also find myself rooting for Trump, mainly because I find the people attacking him to be malicious, duplicitous, bigoted, snobbish, intolerant a-holes. I root for Trump to demolish those people, to show how shallow they are and because it is really amusing to watch them burn in the sunlight like the Zombies in Minecraft when they are exposed.”

Thanks for this. I told a friend recently that I’m rooting for Trump as god’s-hammer to smash (all the stuff Dust says), but I’m not rooting for Trump much otherwise, not yet, because @RealTrump has some serious substance issues.

The failure to address substance issues becomes substance-abuse, politically, with gambling for a resurrection next up in the dock.

We’ll see.

Dustbunny (bunny of cosmic dust) - a child is teaching me to play Minecraft. You know, enter the kingdom as a little child. He’s teaching me that he can summon the ‘creepers’ (snake-devils) and make the creepers obey his own (child’s) objectives in game.

I haven’t seen it yet. Still learning the controls. If true, then one part of the game of politics is to summon political demons, use them by converting their evil to good, but the game-maths behind this art of the deal require so much trudge-work, that I’m not competent to know the score, except by luck, some of the time. Perhaps summoning and mastering the creeper-snake-demons in Minecraft would make me a better member of the polis?

Having fun is good enough for now.

Unless those creeper-sons-a-bitches are non-saying Socratic muses.

I disagree with Ann.

Jesus was not a tech. Morton Smith worked that thesis in, “Jesus the Magician.” It’s at least half-true.

Jesus was a rhapsode. See Plato’s, “Ion.” But that fucking Socratic muse killed divine inspiration and rhapsody in art, in “Ion,” using the most demonic form of techkne-reasoning Plato had at his Socratic disposal.

Whether the Socratic crucifixion of rhapsode in “Ion,” or the crucifixion of Jesus as rhapsode is worse - I’ll never know.

I guess the trick of summoning the creeper-demon-snakes of Socratic murders is to know how to use them.

"Name three" is a slap in the face to anyone requesting that we all, all of us without a single exception, shut the Hell up about this person. I am quasi-guilty now too because of this comment but I figure I got my own special unique reasons* so all is well. Boy am I sure glad I am special!

People keep writing "don't feed the trolls" because the trolls are continuously getting all fattened up, even with only chunks of two words at a time.

It makes me feel horrible to see trolls win, which has happened at other places I used to frequent, all because the need we feel to engage is so strong at times among some of us, presumably even those with beneficial intentions, that is precisely what we do even knowing on a meta-level we are helping to cause that which we claim to condemn.

When I got back from my honeymoon the guys at the pizza recycling place were snickering to each other and asked me "Well, Fernandinande, is your new wife pregnant?" and I answered "I sure hope so, I sure wouldn't want to do *that* again!"

IMO most of us love Professor Althouse because of her unique mind that she uses on a talented Rennaissance Woman's myriad of areas, not because she is perfect. She has forgotten more than most of us ever learned, and she is still learning. Beautiful.

I got off FB because my political comments irritated appx 50% of my alleged friends and relatives. I'd lose them as FB friends. OK, good riddance. Other topics would do the same to others thin-skinned relatives/friends. Bye-bye Zuckerdork.

On this beloved blog (my favorite), you can irritate to your hearts content, say (nearly) anything you want and still go to bed smiling. Free speech at it's finest.

I think Don Colacho confirms what many in America who have voted Republican over the years know to be true using his great vocabulary and near-Shakespearian displays of pithy wisdom.

The penetration here is of a positive, confirming sort.

Proggies would allow the evil of his message's penumbra's emanations to dictate their thought process' which I don't believe is the type of penetration you are referring to, but it is significant, as timely wisdom always is to those lucky few remaining without all potential hindsight exterminated.

I would have loved for him to consider and commment on Gram Parson's song "100 Years From Now" when Parsons was singing with The Byrds.

One hundred years from this dayWill the people still feel this wayStill say the things that they're sayin' right nowEveryone said I hurt you,They said that I desert youIf I go away,You know I'm going to get back somehowNobody knows what kind of trouble there isNobody seems to think it all might happen again

One hundred years from this timeWould anybody change their mindsAnd find out one thing or two about lifeBut people are always talkingYou know they're always talkingEverybody's so wrongThat I know it's gonna work out fineNobody knows what kind of trouble there isNobody seems to think it all might happen again

SongwritersGRAM PARSONS

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